Coenocorypha pusilla
The Chatham Islands snipe, also known as the Chatham snipe, is a species of wader in the family Scolopacidae. It is endemic to the Chatham Islands of New Zealand, and is only found on a few islands in the south of the Chatham Islands group.

Peter de Lange · CC0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- Chatham Islands snipePBDB
- Sits inside
- CoenocoryphaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Charadriiformes
- Mass
- 85.4 gWikidata
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Coenocorypha pusilla on record, most of them in the Holocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
1 occurrences- Holocene100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Coenocorypha pusilla and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Coenocorypha pusilla and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Anthornis melanocephala1 site
- Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae1 site
- Coenocorypha chathamica1 site
- Cyanoramphus forbesi1 site
- Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae chathamensis1 site
- Eudyptes1 site
- Gallirallus dieffenbachii1 site
- Gallirallus modestus1 site
- Garrodia nereis1 site
- Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae1 site
- Larus dominicanus1 site
- Megalurus rufescens1 site
- Nestor chathamensis1 site
- Pachyptila turtur1 site
- Pachyptila vittata1 site
- Pelecanoides urinatrix1 site
- Petroica traversi1 site
- Pterodroma1 site
- Pterodroma axillaris1 site
- Tadorna1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Coenocorypha pusilla, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Coenocorypha pusilla
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Peter de Lange
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Coenocorypha pusilla was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCoenocorypha through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Butler 1869)